OTAGO

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

GAZETTE.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

JOHN L. C. RICHARDSON, Superintendent.

Vol. IV.] WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1862. [No. 167.

PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by Warrant under the hand of Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand, dated at Auckland the eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, and in exercise of the power and authority for that purpose in him vested, did thereby delegate absolutely and without restriction unto me,

JOHN LARKINS CHEESE RICHARDSON,
as Superintendent of the Province of Otago, all the powers vested in him under or by virtue of the “Goldfields Act, 1858,” except the powers contained in sections 7, 8, 15, 27 and 40 of the said Act, to have, hold, and exercise the powers within the Province of Otago thereby given.

And whereas by Clause XII of the said Act it is enacted that upon petition of not less than one hundred persons holding Miners’ Rights or Leases under the said Act at any Goldfield, and having held such Rights or Leases for not less than three calendar months, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council by Proclamation to declare such Goldfield, or any part thereof containing not less than one hundred persons holding Miners’ Rights or Leases, to be a district for the purpose of forming a Mining Board, with the powers and authority hereinafter described; and to declare the name of such district, and define the limits thereof; and after the publication of any such Proclamation the locality so described shall be and become a Mining District for the purposes aforesaid.

And whereas by clause XIII of the said Act it is enacted that the Governor, by order in Council, shall from time to time prescribe what shall be the number of members of each such Mining Board, what qualification shall be required to render them eligible; who shall act as returning officer; when, where, and in what manner the elections of such members shall be conducted; in what manner erroneous returns shall be corrected; for what period such member shall be elected; when, and in what manner, vacancies in any Mining Board shall be created, and how the same shall be filled up; and generally shall make provision for ensuring the orderly, effective, and impartial conduct of the electors of members of such Mining Board.

And whereas more than one hundred persons holding miners’ rights under the said Act, at the Tuapeka gold-field, in the Province of Otago, and having held such miners’ rights for not less than three calendar months, have preferred their petition to me, praying that I would issue the necessary instructions for the information of a Board of Miners.

Now, therefore, I, John Larkins Cheese Richardson, by virtue of the powers so delegated to me as aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and declare that Wetherston’s and Gabriel’s Gullies, and the lands adjacent thereto, shall be a district of the said gold-field for the purpose of forming a Mining Board, with the powers and authority in the said Act described. And I, hereby further declare the name of such district to be Gabriel’s District, and I define the limits of the said district to be the following, viz:—Towards the west and north the boundary of the Tuapeka gold-field, towards the north-east the Waipori river and the boundary...